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• Note Taking: Take quick notes with Jjot

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Note Taking, Sticky Notes, Webapps

  is a lightning fast sticky note web application filled with smart features like archiving, search, and sharing. Jjot is very easy to use and understand (which is nice when you're tackling any new web application), but what really stands out about Jjot is its speed. Everything you do on Jjot is satisfyingly snappy, which is so refreshing in an

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• Note Taking: A Beginner's Guide to Mind Mapping Meetings

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: Feature, Meetings, Mind Mapping, Note Taking, Top

  because you can't take notes as fast as the speaker talks? If you do jot down some thoughts and ideas, by the time you re-read your notes they make no sense? If this sounds like you, a meeting mind map may be just what you need. Here is a quick start guide that will give you some pointers and a printable template you can use to get off to a

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• Stuff We Like: Rite in the Rain all-weather notebooks

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Gizmodo, Hipster Pda, Note Taking, Notebook, Stuff We Like, Water

  you're an outdoors kind of note taker who's suffered from a soggy notebook and smudged ink one time too many, the Rite in the Rain all-weather notebooks might be up your alley. The cover is Polydura and the pages are made with a substrate, giving the paper a wax-y feel. The effect: water beads off them, meaning no pulpy mess and no bummer

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• Back To School: Get Organized at School With Notely

  Published: August 21, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Back To School, Bookmarks, Calendar, College, Facebook, Feeds, Note Taking, Students, To Do Managers, Top, University

  Student web application Notely keeps track of your to-do's, classes, lecture notes, bookmarks, and calendar in an attractive interface. Associate notes and tasks with classes, and even enter complicated mathematical formulas into your notes and upload related files. Notely also doesn't lock up your data; your calendar is available in iCal and

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• Students: Take Notes Online with NoteSake

  Published: September 11, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Back To School, Collaboration Tools, College, Note Taking, Students, University

  Free webapp NoteSake makes taking and saving notes online easier than ever. The interface is much like Notepad on steroids: a regular text editor that sports features for extra formatting goodness, such as the ability to recognize *bold* and _underline_ formatting. You can also designate the appropriate course and tag your notes for easy slicing

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• Note Taking: How to Take Killer Notes

  Published: September 15, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Learning, Note Taking

  Taking effective notes is not necessarily a built-in skill. Productivity blog Lifehack.org has a nice write-up of exactly how to make your notes—whether they be for school, work, or whatever—the absolute most useful notes ever. Two things to remember: Write down what is new to you (there's no point in writing down stuff you already

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• Note Taking: TwitterNotes Organizes Your Notes

  Published: September 18, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Note Taking, Notes, Twitter

  Webapp TwitterNotes separates notes to yourself from all the other chatter on Twitter. Simply log onto Twitter and type a note to yourself prefixed by the + sign, and check TwitterNotes to retrieve it later. Organize your TwitterNotes with tags by surrounding tag words in the tweet with asterisks, or listing tags at the end of the tweet. For

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• Office Culture: Cover Your Butt At Work with Thorough Notes

  Published: September 30, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Feature, Note Taking, Office Culture, Personal Relationships, Top

  is complete and accurate notes. Of all the ways to keep yourself out of trouble and get ahead, your notes—if thorough and detailed—can provide you a clear path. What do butt-covering notes look like?First, all your notes should be dated. Date the top of each page and when someone makes an important statement, put a time next

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• Productivity: Take Notes Like Thomas Edison

  Published: October 14, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Note Taking, Productivity

  benefits to such a detailed note system was there was no need to reinvent the wheel— in other words, Edison didn't have to unnecessarily repeat work that he had already completed, because his note system had it all recorded. How does this apply to us? If we want to be as productive as possible, Edison's example is a good one to follow, and

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• Google Notebook Adds Labels, Bookmarks [Bookmarks]

  Published: November 2, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Bookmarks, Capture Tools, Firefox Extensions, Google, Google Notebook, Note Taking

  stored inside the "unfiled" notebook are automatically added to Google Bookmarks.The Google Notebook Firefox extension has also been updated to make adding text notes or bookmarks as easy as clicking on a star button. Looking to get started with Google Notebook? Check out Gina's guide to getting things done with Google Notebook. Google Notebook

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• How to Index Your Paper Notebooks [Note-taking]

  Published: December 10, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Note Taking, Notebook, Notebooks, Notes

  flipping through paper notebooks a year from now or transcribing my scribbling to digital documents as I go. How do you take notes while you read books, attend seminars, and go to meetings? Let us know in the comments. Students, see more on how to take study-worthy notes with the Cornell note-taking method. How to Take Notes Like an

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• Add a Whiteboard to Your Hipster PDA [Hipster PDA]

  Published: December 15, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Clip, Hipster Pda, Note Taking, Notecards, Whiteboard

  Turn a notecard into a miniature whiteboard by wrapping it with packing tape. As shown above, packing tape can also be used to laminate notecards you want to protect. The downside to carrying a notecard wrapped in packing tape is that you'd also have to start carrying a dry erase marker. Regardless, if you're a frequent doodler, big thinker,

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• Organize and Extend Your Notes Online with Springnote [Online Documents]

  Published: December 26, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Gtd, Note Taking, Notes, Online Documents, Online File Storage, To Do Lists, Web Application, Web Applications

  Free note-taking web application Springnote offers a method of jotting down thoughts and organizing projects that require more than just a little text. Its markup-friendly text editing resembles a TiddlyWiki in some ways, but the Ajax-y interface allows you to drag and drop pictures, import and export files in nearly any handy format (HTML and

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• Add Notes to YouTube Videos with Overstream [Video]

  Published: January 15, 2008, 8:00 am

  Tags: Note Taking, Notes, Sharing, Video, Youtube

  you could add thoughts and notes to a YouTube video to make it useful and instructive, rather than just fun and time-waste-y. Overstream, a new video subtitle web app, aims to help you do just that. Find a YouTube or Google video you want to annotate, copy the URL, and load it into Overstream to bring up a simple but effective interface that

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• Use Jott to Keep a Medical Diary [Note Taking]

  Published: April 11, 2008, 11:03 am

  Tags: Dictation, Health, Jott, Journals, Mobile Phone, Mobile Phones, Note Taking, Voicemail

  Web marketer and migraine sufferer Scott Clark is tracking all the daily variables—food, environment, activity, and the like—that surround his attacks with a migraine diary, and he's found text-to-speech services like Jott (original post) are the best hassle-free tool for the job. Not only will Jott (or ReQall or most similar systems)

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